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125.: grenfell to ricardo1 - David Ricardo, The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815 [1810]

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The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, ed. Piero Sraffa with the Collaboration of M.H. Dobb (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005). Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815.

Part of: The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 11 vols (Sraffa ed.)

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125.

grenfell to ricardo1

My dear Sir

Another Letter from the “Old Proprietor” in yesterday’s Press2 has just attracted my Notice—and having obtained two of the Papers I inclose you one to add to your Collection. He gives I think a very correct Report of what passed—except in converting Mr. Thornton into the Secretary.

I am just starting for Taplow—to return here on Monday.

Ever truly yours

P: G:

PS.

Since I wrote what is within I have yours of yesterday from Cheltenham. You will have found on your Return, 3 Covers from me of Thursday.3 I have referred to the House of Commons Papers you allude to—What was the voluntary Subscription of 200000?4

[1 ]MS in R.P.—For dating see below, note 3.

[2 ]Cp. above, p. 276, n. 1.

[3 ]28 September (letter 124; cp. its second paragraph).

[4 ]See above, IV, 119. The £200,000 were a voluntary contribution of the Bank of England for the defence of the country in 1798. (See A. Allardyce, A Second Address to the Proprietors of Bank of England Stock, 1801, p. 8.)